Pistol attachment for gun-barrels



: rio Model.) 1" v M. W. 'F-AIRBANKS. PISTOL ATTACHMENT POE GUN BARREL S. No. 511,940. -Patented Jan. 2,1894.

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NHED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MANDAL IV. FAIRBANKS, OF BOONVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

PISTOL ATTACHMENT FOR GUN-BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,940, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed October 11, 1892. Serial No.448,525. (N0 model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MANDAL W. FAIRBANKS, of Boonville, in the county of Mendocino and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Pistol Attachment for Gun-Barrels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a pistol attachment for gun barrels, and hasfor its object to provide a device especially adapted for attachment to the barrel of a gun, which device is capable of holding a pistol parallel with the barrel of the gun, the attachment being so made that the gun constitutes a rest or support for the pistol, and whereby also the pistol may be sighted and fired when the stock of the gun is brought to the shoulder, in as accurate a manner as though the sight were taken over the barrel of the gun.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gun, illustrating the application of the invention thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the gun barrel, showing one portion of the attachment applied; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view, illustrating a bracket adapted for attachment to the barrels of double guns when the rib on the barrel is so low as not to permit of the attachment being dovetailed into it.

In the upper face of the gun barrel A, when the barrel is of sufiicient thickness, one or more, preferably two under-cut or substantially dove-tail grooves 10, are produced, and these grooves are adapted to receive arms 11, whicharms are shaped similarly to the grooves, and the arms are of sufficient length to extend out beyond one side of the barrel. Each arm 11, carries at its outer end a socket 12,

and these sockets are shaped preferably somewhat as a sleeve. The arms are arranged one in advance of the other, and the sleeves are adapted to receive and to hold the barrel of a pistol, the pistol being held securely in the sockets or sleeves by means of set screws 13, or their equivalents, the said set screws being placed in the bottom portion of the sleeves, so that they will not interfere with the sighting of the pistol. The pistol when placed in the sockets or sleeves 12, will be held at one side of and parallel with the barrel of the gun, so that the pistol may be sighted by carrying the gun to the shoulder, and the pistol grip, when the pistol is upon the barrel, is contiguous to the guard of the gun, so that the trigger of the pistol may be conveniently and expeditiously worked. By this arrangement an effective fire-arm is obtained, and when the rifle has been discharged the pistol may be brought into action, and the operator need not be bothered with carrying the pistol about his person, and accuracy of aim is furthermore obtained.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a bracket, which is designated as B, and in this bracket at proper intervals apart, dove-tail or under-cut recesses 15, are produced. These recesses are adapted to receive the arms 11 when the bracket is employed in connection with them. This bracket is used only when the gun barrel to which the attachment is made is not of sufficient thickness to permit the recesses to be produced directly in it. When the bracket is used it is screwed, riveted or otherwise longitudinally attached upon the upper face of the barrel.

The nicety of adjustment of the attachment herein described is such, that one can use the sights on the gun barrel, as it will shoot just as accurately and give one longer range of sight.

The device when attached to a rifle for large game fills the same place that a double-barreled rifle would that had one large caliber barrel for large game and one very small caliber barrel for small game. If it is attached to a single barreled shot gun it practically makes it a double barreled gun, one barrel for shot and the other for ball. If it is attached to a double barreled shot gun, it makes a three barreled gun of it, but has great advantage over double or three barreled guns while it is just as accurate.

The attachment is not in the way, does not materially add to the weight of the gun, can tol receiving sockets at their ends, and screws [0 be easilyremoved and replaced, and increases carried by the sockets for binding a pistol the operative capacity of the gun. therein, substantially as herein shown and Having thus described my invention, I described. 5 $322111 as new and desire to secure by Letters M AN D AL FAIRBANKS.

The combination with a gun having its bar- \Vitnesses: rel provided with transverse grooves, of arms E. B. BALL,

secured in the grooves and provided with pis- G. T. BROWN. 

